My tales retelling my experience with Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety” art installation in Domino’s Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, NY.
Tag: United States
Notes From W 145th @ Harlem 2/9/2014
“This past Tuesday, the self-identified gangster rapper invited me over to his humble abode up in Harlem to preview his album before it hit the Internet, and also to converse on general topics ranging from Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, the military and prison-industrial complexes, death of black-owned businesses, the falsehood of nationalism, and corny conscious rap in between our listening to his album. From our private listening session, I discerned a list of my top 10 favorites from a 20 hour-long listen through of this monster 20-track project. Below is a neat fragment from my afternoon with Luck.
My Blackness is NOT for Sale
We are now living in a state of emergency so colossal, we don’t even know what is keeping us from responding. We’ve got chains on us and we don’t even know how to take them off, even when they are already removed.
AMERICAN WASTELAND: WHY THE SUBURBS TURNED ME INTO A CYNIC
The Commonwealth of Suburbia is made out of cellophane.
IF OBAMA WASN’T BLACK, WOULD WE STILL BE DOWN FOR HIM?
From Syria to sheer cabinet manipulation, are we supporting Obama for his political caliber or as a symbol of artificial racial progress?